Food Containers are useful when you need to drink water

Drinking straws Food Containers are useful when you need to drink water from homemade devices such as rock bowls, etc. Tin foil can be used not only to cook your food in but also to hold extra medical pills.

All the noise about organic food is not just touting another trend...true organic foods are grown without chemical fertilizers and pesticides, which have long been associated with infertility. The following are good general rules on what else you should try to avoid when trying to become pregnant:

Drink water out of OPAQUE plastic bottles or thermoses.

Don't microwave in plastic containers.

Use a home filter for tap water

Don't use solvents and stain repellents

Reduce the number of household cleaners - try soap & water!

Let some else use the gasoline-powered yard tools (you stay with the manual or electric machinery)

Try to avoid breathing in gasoline fumes when filling your car's gas tank (again, see if you can sweet-talk someone else into doing it)

Go easy on the seafood; limit yourself to fish and shellfish low in PCBs and mercury contamination (most sources say we're safest sticking with salmon and canned tuna).

Just trying to list the number of toxins that we encounter daily would make any normal person's head spin (especially if they're wearing a hat - the expression "mad as a hatter" derived from the brain-damaging effects of mercury used years ago in making men's hats). I should mention the importance of making sure that any medications you are taking are brought to the attention of your health professional prior to conception. This includes over-the-counter remedies and herbals as well. Don't forget diet pills, which almost all of us have taken in some form or another - and some of which have proven to be highly dangerous. Some medications can interfere with conception; they include:

Antidepressants

Anti-anxiety drugs (such as valium)

Allopurinol, Colchicine (for gout)

Antibiotics (Nitrofuran, Erythromycin, Gentamicin)

Methotrexate (for cancer, psoriasis, arthritis

Cimetidine (for ulcers or acid reflux))

Any cold medicines Plastic Container (especially during the 3rd trimester)